A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.
Acting
Fonda's Oscar-winning rawness — she lived in the apartment for weeks.
Direction
Pakula's paranoid framing: faces half-lit, shadows as characters.
Sound
The tape recordings: intimate, invasive, utterly chilling.
Director
Alan J. Pakula
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fonda used her own furniture and clothes for Bree's apartment, and improvised the therapy monologues with real psychiatrists' patients as research.
This launched Pakula's 'paranoia trilogy' (followed by The Parallax View and All the President's Men), defining 70s American dread.
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